Foliation: Paper, i + 235 + i; [1-235]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords used only when a rubric
follows, and can be on any page, recto or verso, in lower right corner.

Layout: Written in 20-22 lines, frame ruled in red ink.

Script: Written in a cursive script.

Decoration: Thirty-four illustrations in color, two of which (ff. 159v and 160v) are pasted in, possibly cut from another
manuscript (the paper is of a different quality, the color palette is different, and ascenders from another hand are visible
at the bottom of the illustration on f. 159v). Extensive rubrication.

Watermark: Similar to Briquet 257 (Graz, 1582).

Binding: Limp vellum with three concentric botanical borders and stamp in center of upper cover with the arms of Freiherr
von Clam. Sewn on five split bands with decorative endbands.

The illustrations in this manuscript are similar to those in Berlin, Staatsb. ms. germ. qu. 1188. In his study of the text,
W. Hassenstein gives no date for the Berlin manuscript, although it appears to be 15th century (cf. Hassenstein, Das Feuerwerkbuch
von 1420 (Munich, 1941), p. 121). Compare Hassenstein, Bild 33 with f. 174r of the present manuscript, and Hassenstein, Bild
34 with f. 185v.